By Ray Sherwin
Ray Sherwin is likely to be the main traditional of the Chaos practitioners. Sherwin's books are written in a relaxed, analytical type, systematically exploring issues of useful hindrance to the magician. you're not guided into utilizing any fastened paradigms, you successfully use no matter what works right for you, blending and borrowing or inventing new strategies. This point of trust isn't what meta-belief is worried with. really, it issues the extent of trust that's attained by way of the tactic actor, occasionally pointed out within the inverted feel as "suspension of disbelief." practising Chaos Magick contains the transitority adoption of an obsessive trust approach that permits for the potential of Magick to complete particular results, after which the abandonment of that trust procedure upon the of entirety of the paintings. to do that it truly is of major value that nobody specific set of ideals is ever authorised as being eventually precise. "Nothing is right; every little thing is permitted!"
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A banishing ritual is symbolic, that is to say it relies upon deep-seated elements from the magicians imagination and subconscious in order to achieve its effect. It is impossible merely to think oneself into the right state of mind - devices of some nature are unavoidable. A list of such devices would be infinite. There are some, however, which appear to have had an almost archetypal attraction in the past and these serve here as examples. 1) The circle. Infinite and impregnable, an expression of the early gods, the circle can be cast with the magician egocentrically at its centre.
Suicide attempts are, of course permitted. Ignore all left and right signs. These serve only to confuse, since stage right is audience left and vice-versa. 5. 6. Lay as many ghosts as possible. 7. Never expose your pentacles. 8. Will is unity of desire. 9. When visiting the local coven be sure to take a shilling for the meter. 10. Magick is the violation of probability. 42 The Theatre of Magick Exeunt 1. ’. The statement that the two paths are enemies should not be understood to infer that either is good or bad since this can only be judged in context by result.
The spiral leads to a separate universe or anywhere else you care to go and is useful in experimenting with what used to be called ‘astral traveling’. As you are sucked into the spiral construct a strong image of the place you want to be and then key in the gnosis. Empirical evidence can be used in the examination of results. Divination Devise new methods of divination, the more bizarre and unlikely the better. Example: examine the shadow cast by a naked woman onto a backlit screen and prognosticate the major news of the following day from the American continent.